The Life-Cycle Hypothesis Suggests That People Base Their Consumption on Their

question 75

Multiple Choice

The life-cycle hypothesis suggests that people base their consumption on their:

• A) current incomes
• B) average lifetime incomes rather than their current incomes
• C) temporary incomes
• D) future incomes
• E) past incomes

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